Kim Cooper is a professional dog trainer, owner and senior instructor at Best Friends Dog Training in Ottawa since 1994. She has been actively engaged in training and deploying civilian search and rescue dogs since 1991 through the Ottawa Valley SAR Dog Association, where she is currently Team Manager. She has certified dogs under the OPP, FEMA, RCMP, International Police Work Dog Association and North American Police Work Dog Association standards. In particular, she has been an active handler of Human Remains Detection dogs since 2007.